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National government budget at a high level. This category is looking at budgets, or the planned government expenditure for the upcoming year, and not the actual expenditure. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

Planned budget divided by government department and sub-department

Updated once a year.

The budget should include descriptions regarding the different budget sections.

Revision: The originally proposed link pointed to a bunch of very different files including non budget ones, and only reflected the government's intended budget, before it was discussed and largely modified by the parliament (the data is from october 14th 2014, whereas the discussion lasted until the end of december : http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/dossiers/loi_finances_2015.asp ).

The data available at the SPIR portal 1 is provided with low granular level, it not seems to be complete but it is up-to-date and well formatted. It is also easy to share. Howerver, it only works on Firefox.

There is another tools maintained by the Ministerio de Hacienda, called the Boost database [3] that contains budget information from 2003 until 2014.

About the license, the Paraguayan FOI law[3], and the presidential decree that regulares this law [4] establishes an open license for the budget data.

The government budget dataset is available on the Open Fiscal Data site managed by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance of the Republic of Korea. The dataset is available in bulk, in various formats including XML, JSON, Excel, CSV, and Text. The site also provides Web APIs which can be used to harness data programatically on the Web.

Actually, this dataset does not include descriptions regarding the different budget sections, but the budget in the dataset is well divided by government departments, ledgers, accounts, sectors, parts, programs, and sub-programs so general citizens can easily understand where the money goes without explicit descriptions. In this regards, I think the dataset meets the minimum criteria of the dataset definition.

Budget commitments are described in terms of policy areas, but there is a document that links policy area to government departments. The expenditure plans in the CSV format do include a fairly detailed breakdown of 'large' projects that includes past and future expenditure.

Budgets for years 2010 - 2015 are available. The current budget is published in 3 phases (estimates, changes, actual expenditure) and updated quaterly.

Czech national budget for 2016 has not been approved by the parliament and therefore not published (not even a framework).

The license says, that data can be shared freely and integrated into computer programs or databases and other works. However, it also mentions, that the data can't be edited - I think this is just unfortunate definition, that means that the cannot be used in a misleading way, but I'm not 100% sure about it.
The terms of use: http://monitor.statnipokladna.cz/en/2014/data/

The General Accounting Office publishes data on central government spending of the state in time series from 2007 and processable format. The data allow to follow the evolution of resources allocated, committed and paid from the state budget, broken down into the public policy goals (missions and programs), the economic nature of the expenditure (by title and economic category), the nature of 'legislative authorization (by type of authorization) and the administration responsible for the implementation and management (accounting). [amended: it is possible to download state 2013 budget as xls from http://www.rgs.mef.gov.it/_Documenti/VERSIONE-I/Servizio-s/Studi-e-do/La-spesa-d/Tavole/1-BP-2013.xls under IODL2 as well as other documents mentioned above]

No changes from last year. Data is published here (http://opendata.rijksbegroting.nl/), and is available as CSV, under Creative Commons CC Zero license. It has an overview of expenses, liabilities by departmental budgets.

The data for the most recent year is updated monthly.
The annual budget data is avaible back to FY 2009.
The data is available grouped in three ways (in French and English):
- Statutory forecasts
- Expenditures by Strategic Outcome and Program
- Expenditures by Standard Object
The data is available in Excel (.xls) formats. (No change from 2014)

2015 - The budget breakdown can be found under PESA- Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses . However, it is not clear if one can see budget breakdown for sub-departments. Moreover, it was hard to find the dataset, and it was not available on data.gov.uk, but on the gov.uk website. In addition, there was no link from the treasury webpage to this dataset.

All the data is one place, but it would be better if it was in one spreadsheet.

The budget book can be find under the name Main Supply Estimates 2015 to 2016, and it is not publish in a Machine readable format, nor it does not linked from the treasury website.

StatBank Denmark contains detailed statistical information on the Danish society.
The database is free of charge and data can be exported in several file formats and presented as diagrams or maps. The website offers a data selector where users can configure specific indicators and export the result in different machine-readable formats. All the items and years can be selected in the selector and then data can be downloaded in bulk.

The annual budget is published in Arabic in the Official Gazette and can be accessed from the website of the Ministry of Finances and the website of the Ministry of Legal Affairs. The budget provides a sector and department level breakdown of estimated expenses and profits. The latest budget documents (2014 and 2015) are only found as PDF files, while previous documents are available in XLS format.

The Annual Budget is issued through a Royal Decree, which is exempt from copyright protection and is there available freely to use, reuse, or to distribute. This is confirmed in Article 4(A) of the Omani Copyright Law (found here: http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=180949 )

Additionally, the same budget document in PDF format could be downloaded from the website of the Ministry of Legal Affairs (Example: http://www.mola.gov.om/Download.aspx?Path=royal/1-2015.pdf ) and the terms and conditions of the website of the Ministry of Legal Affairs clearly state that:

"The website of the Ministry of Legal Affairs contains official documents such as Royal Decrees and Decisions and which are considered part of the public domain excluded from copyright protection and which may be reproduced, republished, and used without restrictions." (Taken from http://www.mola.gov.om/eng/websitepolicy.aspx )

Note: Arabic is the only official language in Oman and like majority of websites of the Omani government, the English sections of websites are rarely updated and information here is based on the Arabic content.

Reviewer's Comment:
I was able to find the data on the website for the Ministry of Finance on its Open Data section, it is available for online for free. It is in PDF and XLS format, though not openly licensed. Data is available both as balance and as functional (departments). The balance has expenses as ongoing expenses and assets, each with sub categories. The descriptions provided are very limited though.
http://www.mof.gov.ae/Ar/OpenData/Pages/default.aspx

PDF files that contain information on the government's budget for a given year can be found on the website of the Ministry of Finance. Data is available since 2008. A link to an XML file of the Budget exists but it's broken.

The information provided by government officials in Kazakhstan (by default) is open for reuse, publishing as cited by the law. The website provides information about approved law of budget spending for upcoming years as well as project of such law.

The data is available in the OGD India (https://data.gov.in) website mentioned above with their links. The data is available in machine readable formats. The data portal provides important data pertaining to various aspects of the budget from 2011-12 to 2015-16 in machine readable excel format.

The Ministry of Finance website http://indiabudget.nic.in/index.asp on Union Budget provides up to date information about the budget (In XLS and PDF Format). The information available on OGD India is completely open for reuse and further studies and research. Same is the case with the data available on the budget website.

The Budget law is promulgated in the State gazette, so it is in the public domain. The PDF is also published on the Ministry of Finances website (see here for 2015: http://www.minfin.bg/bg/page/851).

The consolidated budget framework is published on the Finances ministry website, usually as an Excel generated PDF. The available Excel sheets for 2015 are different amendments but their aim is unclear.

Data has been considered unavailable in bulk because each file, be it in machine-readable format or no, has to be downloaded individually. Also, the data has been considered available for free as anyone can access the files and download them from the Ministry's website.

Reviewer's note - Although each excel file needs to be downloaded individually,it is all in one webpage, and we consider that as bulk. For the future, it would be better if all the data was in one spreadsheet.

The state budget is published as soon as it is approved by the Parliament on a special page maintained by the Ministry of Public Finance. The budget is presented as a set of PDF documents, and, starting with 2014, also in XML format (scroll down to the bottom of the budget page for the link).

However, the XML format does not include the budget rectifications, which are only available in separate PDF files. Also, there is no updated version of the budget after rectifications, which means that one should take the provisions from the rectification bills and apply them to the original budget.

The data are under the Copyright of the Ministerul Finantelor Publice -DGTI but there is no reference to a licence nor terms of use.

The web site of Ministry Of Finance http://minfin.kg/ provides Provides information on budget, internal and external loans, budget implementation, plans and expenses across governmental bodies.
The data is divided into categories. The data is available in following formats xls, doc, pdf

Government budgets are standardised across government departments allowing for easy comparisons. Historic budgets are also available in various forms back to 1993. 2013 onwards seem the most comprehensive. Planned expenditure data is available in PDF and XLS. The data is copyright under the National Treasury.

The budget most of all public institutions is accessible and downloadable in the Contraloría General de la República (CGR) Website via an interface as a CSV file. Nevertheless the system is not friendly and to find the detailed budget is complicated and for some institutions is not available. The Central Goverment Budget it is also available in the Ministry of Finance website http://www.hacienda.go.cr/contenido/424-leyes-de-presupuestos but in a PDF format.

https://www.bmf.gv.at/budget/das-budget/budget-2014-2015.html provides links to the budgets for 2014 and 2015 in PDF files. Numerous relevant datasets with various statistics and payments are available as XLS files, however there appears to be no machine readable file with all data from the budget. More than a dozen XLS files are available for download, most of them with tens of worksheets, but all this data combined still does not appear to cover all the data contained in the PDF files of the budgets. The Ministry of Finance appears to claim a Copyright on all content on its website.

The Austrian Parliament has a department for budget analysis. The analysis and data produced by this department is only available online, mostly as PDF and DOCX files, a couple of relevant XLS files are available as well, but no fully machine-readable budget data set (http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/BUDG/Budget/).

Furthermore more granular data of regions and cities and communities are available for lots of regions in Austria; and the project Offener Haushalt opens up budget data of communities and regions etc, see: https://www.offenerhaushalt.at/

Budget available for 2014 (Arabic) in PDF as well as a "Circulaire de préparation du budget de l'état pour l'année 2015". As it is unclear what the status of Tunisia's Open Data initiative is, solely the website of the data producer has been considered for this research.

The budget is regularly published by the general director of budget. The published format is not machine readable, but the excel one can be requested from the publisher. The budget is accessible for free

Most of the data is made available in PDF files, although some Excel files are available; therefore, the data is overall not machine-readable.

All government-generated data is legally public domain in Georgia, although the Ministry of Finance website specifies that it is Copyright 2015 the Ministry of Finance. No specific license for the dataset is provided, however.

Data including budgets, budget memoranda, presentations to parliament and revenue measures are all available from the site. There is no clear license within the PDF documents and a copyright (all rights reserved) statement on the website itself.

Budget information is updated and published annually on this website as part of the regular budgetary process. The Executive presents a budget recommendation on this website (between March and May of every year), and after Legislative review and approval of the budget, the website is updated with the final approved budget numbers by the end of June, for the Fiscal Year that begins on July 1st.

Reviewer's note: Data is PDF. Could not find a machine readable version of the data. License suggest that the data is copyright of the government of Puerto Rico.

Cameroon Budget is voted every year as per de law and it is made available to Citizens through several means. Since 2013, Cameroon is moving from line item budget to program budgeting, so the Cameroon budget is presented by program for each ministry.

Article 12 of Law No. 04/L-065 on copyright and related rights places public documents including laws such as the Law on Budget in the public domain.

Reviewer's note: By law, all government data does not have any copyrights (http://gzk.rks-gov.net/ActDetail.aspx?ActID=2787). However, the ministry of Kosovo has the following footnote at it site - Copyright (c) 2014 Ministry of Finance
I have changed the License to unsure.

Sometimes the changes happens in the budget in the middle of the year and budget information of next year published in the end of past year. The data seems to be openly licensed but I can't find a link to the license.

Material is not open as terms of use at http://www.mof.gov.sg/budget_2013/terms_of_use.html state "Except as otherwise provided, the Contents of this Site shall not be reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted or otherwise distributed in any way, without the prior permission of MOF. To use any parts of the Contents of this Site, the user must seek permission in writing, stating the Contents for use; intent of use; manner of use; time frame of use and identity of the user. MOF reserves the right to refuse permission without declaring reason(s); and/or if information submitted by user is deemed insufficient."

The machine readable data is available in really low level. Sub departmental expenditure is available only in PDF.

The budget is prepared by the ministry of finance (through the general direction of budget) that submit it to the adoption of the national assembly. For now, the budget have been prepared by the ministry of finance but not yet adopted by the national assembly. Normally, even if it is not yet adopted, it is available on the website of the general direction, but the website is down for now.

Various budget data are to be found on the Ministry of Finance website. There is no annual document with expenditures and revenues planned but you can find for instance yearly updated investment plan for next 5 years in pdf format. Data are quite aggregated though.

The link to the data is to the plan for 2016-2019, with only 2016 broken down in detail.

The web page also provides access to the 2013-2015 plan.

The copyright catchall and the terms and conditions do not encourage commercial and non-commercial reuse at present but the data may become available under an open licence in 2016 as part of an open data strategy.

Tajikistan is member to Open Budget Initiative. The first and last assessment was conducted in 2012, which found OBI as 17%. Though it is low in rank, it is encouraging that OBI-oriented actions have been taken in the level of the Ministry.

As ODRA interviewees believe the published information public data or information. However, there is no clear statement about intellectual property rights attached to the government information. There is also no clear statement for the terms and conditions of reuse, e.g. license.

The General Accounting Office is responsible for the dissemination and publicity of the Annual Budget. Unfortunately, the General Accounting office has chosen to publish the related data in formats, which essentially prevents further use of this information by the public. The annual budget is published as unstructured PDF documents, while the internal breakdown formations change almost every year. This makes comparisons of actual spending with the budget , particularly difficult. Some experimental projects have been made using data scraping techniques , however, for a reliable and efficient solution the General Accounting Office should re-evaluate the data publishing policies applied.

Reviewer's note: The budge above is only in departmental level and does not show department budget. This does not meet the criteria of this dataset. Therefore - data exist but it is not publicly available.

QA Reviewers comment
Since last budget was in 2013, I don't think this dataset meets the minimum requirements. Initial submission was by Sadeek

Sadeek later comment:
last data for 2014 on Presidency of the Council of Ministers website, pls take a look on the link i provided in my submission www.pministry.gov.sy/contents/... so the data meet the needed criteria . However the data for previous years can be fond at Ministry of finance website (http://www.syrianfinance.gov.s... as i mentioned.

QA Reviewer Comment:
It came up that data is available for this year, yet in textual format, and it wasn't clear at first if it is actually the whole budget .

Reviewer's notes - this does not meet the criteria since it does not specify sub departments expenditure. It seems from the websites that the data exist but is unavailable.

Brief Description: Russian budget data is one of most open data but a bit dispersed over a few government websites. Well prepared machine readable data available on new government webisite Budget.gov.ru right here - http://budget.gov.ru/data/opendata
This data is XML data dumped from government database as XML dumps with XSD (XML schemas) provided. Budget.gov.ru is beta-stage portal for now (November 2014) and this data is not up to date . Up to date data published as XLS on websites of Federal Treasury (http://roskazna.ru) and Ministry of Finances (http://minfin.ru) I suggest to accept this data XML but not to accept it as timely updated for now. Step by step explanation
1. Does the data exist? Yes, national level budget data available at - http://budget.gov.ru/data/opendata 2. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website and has digital form. 3. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it. 4. Is the data available for free? Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required. 5. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://budget.gov.ru/data/opendata 6. Is the data machine readable? Yes, this data provided as XML files 7. Available in bulk? Mostly yes, you need to download a few XML files 8. Openly licensed? No, this data is not formally under open license from OpenDefinition.org 9. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis?
Yes, data updated monthly

Comment: Nothing changed since 2014 year

Reviewer's comment - the data is no longer available in 2015. I have changed the data accordingly.

Reviewer's note - I have altered the original submission. The budget can be found on the ministry of finance website. It is in a high level and does not explain the sub department planned expenditure (Although is does states what are the sub department.

The annual budget can be downloaded from the website of the Ministry of Finance ( http://www.mof.gov.bh/arb/categorylist.asp?ctype=budget ). The report available provides review and expediter with a department level breakdown. The website provides a link for downloading the report in Excel or PDF formats, but currently only the PDF link works.

The Ministry of Finance website has an archive for previous years going back to 2003.

Reviewer's note - data is available only in department level. This does not meet the criteria for the budget data. It seems as the data exist but it in not available to the public.

The Ministry of Finance, Communication, Utilities and Energy of Aruba provides yearly insight into the financial affairs of the country by making the actual and budgeted financial statements of each Ministry and department of Government available online for download in PDF format via the Government of Aruba's website.